WTF is the matter with Tom Brokaw? Brought up Bush IQ to Kerry

[CityHall]

This is nothing but a pro-* attack on Kerry. Watch him try to suck off Bush next.

Are you a liberal?
Were you wrong to talk about Mary Cheney?
Saddam would still have those explosives, right?

Just found out what channel NOT to watch on Tuesday.

[Longhorn]

1. He asked Bush* tough questions, too, in the interview they showed

on the Nightly News. Kerry handled himself just fine.

[madmax]

4. Telling Kerry that bush has a higher IQ

which I sincerely doubt is not a question. It's a snide, dumb comment. Anyway, who cares right? The Skins lost! LOL :bounce:

[Joy Anne]

21. * IQ

IQ measures mostly the same kinds of intelligence that the LSAT measures, and *'s LSAT was too low for him to get into the University of Texas Law School, so I doubt that his IQ is much above average.

[spooky3]

25. yes--and since when do GOOD journalists accept one's self-report

as solid evidence of anything?

Jessica Simp(le)son claims to have a "genius" IQ.

Uh-huh.

[grasswire]

2. what about the IQ?

Did he claim that Bush is smarter than Kerry? Or what? Setting a trap?

[Mojambo]

3. He was baiting

Looking for a response that would make Kerry sound elitist or arrogant.

Kerry nailed the response perfectly.

[phish420]

9. What was the wuestion?

What was the reply?

[CityHall]

7. Asked Kerry about the report that based on mil tests

Bush had a higher IQ. Kerry said "good for him"

Now a tough question for Bush: "Make a prediction" "Will it be decisive?"

What BS

[Lorien]

5. Stupid question about Saddam and the explosives

if we haden't invaded, our troops wouldn't be over there being attacked in the first place!

[phish420]

6. huh? explain please

wtf r u talking about??

[Straight Shooter]

8. I question the IQ of anyone who questions Kerry's IQ

with the intention of trying to influence people with the suggestion that Kerry doesn't have high intelligence.

[robsul82]

10. Huh.

If Bush has a higher IQ than Kerry, I'm smarter than Einstein.

Later.

RJS

[orpupilofnature57]

11. I always heard theres no correlation with IQ, and reasoning skills

And * is the walking example of a idiot no matter what IQ he bought.

[idiosyncratic]

26. I had a Mensa-member neighbor who proved that to be true.

This guy kept bragging about being a member of Mensa, but he was the most ignorant, horrible little person I've ever met.

[tsuki]

30. IQ test measure "how well a

child should do in schools." It is a culturally bias test that has remained with us long after its usefulness (Schools still use it to evaluation "how well a child should do in schools.") But a child from another culture other than the predominate White, Euro-Christian culture will not perform as well due to cultural bias such as language and customs.

TB knows that. What an idiot. Look for something other than a real issue , Tom. Your IQ is not high enough to comprehend a "real" issue. BTW, Tom, how does your IQ compare to Walter's, quite a bit lower I suspect.

[CityHall]

12. Brokaw on Dateline NBC

letting Bush repeat his usual blather, attacking Kerry with Bush's talking points.

[peacetalksforall]

13. He's ending a pretty good career as a plop-dud partisan.

With all due disrespect for the weasel-ly right turn he made.

I don't care that he honors WW2 soldiers - this is now and he leans to the fascist right.

Good-bye Tom. Glad to see you go.

[RoyGBiv]

14. I thought he was fairly balanced ...

An impartial journalist would in fact be tough on both or all candidates and probably bring up things that partisans for those candidates would not like. As long as that happens to everyone involved in a race, it's fine.

As for the IQ thing, that could cut both ways. Remember, Shrub tries to pass himself as a regular guy and laughs off criticisms of his inability to speak proper English as pendantic grumbling by the intellectual elite. *Not* being a thinker is consider by many of his supporters one of his attributes. One one level, bringing up the Shrub's IQ works against the image Shrub has tried to cultivate.

[Pithy Cherub]

15. This is brokaw's swan song

and your being treated to a Brokaw ego burp because no NBC people got to moderate the debates.

[zinsky]

16. Bush's EQ is near zero, though

As most psychologists know, Emotional Quotient or EQ, is a better indicator of emotional adjustment and ulitmate success in life. George W. Bush is a social retard who is still trying to compare penis sizes with his daddy. He is an emotional basket case who desperately needs long-term psychoanalysis and shock treatment to break through the dull metallic glaze that is coating his neurons from 20+ years of alocholism and coke-sniffing.

Kerry is a normal man. Bush is a bed-wetting, immature, substance-abusing Momma's boy who never grew up!

[CityHall]

23. People with high IQ can fake EQ tests

It's largely BS anyway, not nearly the statistics to back it up. Just ann attempt by self-important humanities majors to explain how they're superior to people in the physics department who smoke them on standardized tests.

[melody]

17. Brokaw must be under fire

Any decent journalist should know that someone who uses 90% of a 120 IQ is much starter than someone using 50% of a 140 IQ.

Besides, if Bush's verbal IQ is over 3, I'm a Franciscan monk.

[Berserker]

22. I know that IQ

question was never asked when the smirk was running in 2000. And the chimps IQ is higher? All I have to ask is higher than who's? A third grader? Watching TV today I got more and more pissed off at the media whores. After Kerry gets in it will be Kerry bashing non-stop for 4 fucking years. I already have my news narrowed down to one channel and I'm pissed at them.

[zinsky]

18. Yeah, but what about EQ???

As most psychologists know, Emotional Quotient or EQ, is a better indicator of emotional adjustment and ulitmate success in life. George W. Bush is a social retard who is still trying to compare penis sizes with his daddy. He is an emotional basket case who desperately needs long-term psychoanalysis and shock treatment to break through the dull metallic glaze that is coating his neurons from 20+ years of alocholism and coke-sniffing.

Kerry is a normal man. Bush is a bed-wetting, immature, substance-abusing Momma's boy who never grew up!

[personman]

19. Bull...

He must have cheated then, there is no way he has a higher IQ then Kerry. Any reasonably intelligent person who has seen both men talk could tell you that. I doubt * could SPELL intelligence without looking it up.

[CindyDale]

20. Oh, c'mon

Brokaw: "Someone has analyzed the president's military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do."

I guess the president could have a verbal IQ of 100 and a nonverbal IQ of 200. That would make his overall average IQ 150, right? It wouldn't allow him able to function effectively in any case, though.

Obviously, if Bush were the genius this "someone" implies, he'd have been admitted to law school instead of rejected.

[troubleinwinter]

24. That takes the cake for the dumbest-ass question of this campaign.

Who did chimp pay to take the IQ test for him?

Chimp hasn't used any intellect in years, if he in fact, had one.

How the fuck does going to war and expecting no casualties indicate any grey matter at all?

[personman]

27. Debunked: media matters

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410250007

Did any of you guys really believe it? *SLAP* *SLAP*

[noamnety]

28. I got chills

When Bush was saying very calmly that the country was so divided, no matter who won, he thought the most important thing was to just accept the results and not drag lawyers into it ...

All said with his creepy half smile.

[WHAT]

29. So, what happened to character?...

I saw that, too, and it seemed so wierd. Then, there was a post earlier, I think in GD2004, where some one else said the same thing.

A new talking point? lol

Intelligence is only one trait scrutinized in deciding a canidate. I, for one, would rather have a canidate that wins a debate by addressing the issues inherent in the questions. It might be that the person who deflects and lies is smarter (I don't think one has anything to do with the other...by the way), however, he isn't someone I'd vote for. If you have to lie to win, I think it should be an automatic lose.

Ever heard of evil genius?